Rebound Rumble

Rebound Rumble
Year 2012
Season Information
Number of teams 2,343[1]
Number of regionals 54 (including MI and MAR championships)[2]
Number of district events 15[2]
Championship location Edward Jones Dome, St Louis, Missouri[3]
Awards
Chairman's Award winner Team 1114 - "Simbotics"[4]
Woodie Flowers Award winner Joe Rizo[4]
Founder's Award winner Google[4]
Gracious Professionalism Winner Team 1108 - "Panther Robotics"[5]
Champions Team 180 - "S.P.A.M."
Team 25 - "Raider Robotix"
Team 16 - "Baxter Bomb Squad"[4]
Links
Website http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc

Rebound Rumble is the 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition game.[6] It is styled similarly to basketball.

Kickoff

The Kickoff event was held on January 7.[7] Speakers included Dean Kamen, Charlie Bolden, Walt Havenstein, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Stephen Colbert and will.i.am.[7][8] It was broadcast on NASA TV[9] beginning at 10:30 EST. The official game animation video was produced by Dave Lavery and narrated by Blair Hundertmark.[10]

Rules

Alliances

The game is played by two alliances, red and blue, of three teams each. No alliances are ever purposely the same. When the alliances are picked it is totally random, and you can be on either red or blue alliance. Each team has bumpers made from cloth and pool noodles, with their numbers on it, one set painted blue and the other red. Each team will use certain bumpers according to the color alliance they will be on.[11] Alliances compete in 135-second matches to earn as many points as possible by scoring basketballs into hoops or by balancing tilt bridges.[11]

Field

The field is a carpeted area 27 feet by 54 feet[11] designed to mimic a basketball court.[12] At both ends are the driver stations and an array of basketball hoops.[11] There is one low hoop, two middle hoops, and one high hoop.[11] Across the narrow dimension of the field a 4 inch high wall, along which are placed three tilting bridges at a height of 12 inches.[11] The bridges at the edges are color-coded for each alliance, and the center bridge, called the Coopertition bridge, is available for both alliances.[11]

Basketball hoops at one end of the field
Bridges at the beginning of a match
The field at the beginning of a match at the West Michigan district

Matches

Robots start a match in contact with their key, the semicircular plastic area approximately at the free-throw line.[11] Each match lasts 135 seconds[9] and is divided into two portions: Hybrid mode and Teleoperated (Teleop) mode.[11] During Hybrid mode, two robots on each alliance have to act autonomously, while the third may be controlled by means of a Microsoft Kinect or act autonomously.[8][11] During Teleop, all robots are controlled by human drivers.[11]

At events, there are two types of matches: qualification and elimination.[11] Robots compete in qualification matches to determine seed and who will compete in the elimination bracket.[11]

Scoring

Two robots scoring baskets simultaneously

Throughout a match, teams can score points as follows by scoring basketballs into hoops:[11]

Hoop Hybrid Teleop
Top row 6 3
Middle row 5 2
Bottom row 4 1

At the end of the match, points are scored for balanced alliance bridges, but not the Coopertition bridge.[11]

Number of robots
balanced on bridge 		Qualification
match 		Elimination
match
1 10 10
2 20 20
3 20 40

Balancing the Coopertition bridge with a robot from each alliance earns each alliance 2 Coopertition points toward their qualification seed and the Coopertition Award.[11][13] If the two robots do not balance the bridge, 1 Coopertition point is awarded.[11]

Two robots balanced on the near bridge
The difficulty of balancing three robots
Working to balance the Coopertition bridge

Robots

Robots must not exceed horizontal dimensions of 28 inches by 38 inches, begin each match less than 60 inches tall and never exceed 84 inches in height.[11] An allowance is made for one protrusion of no more than 14 inches (so long as this protrusion is retracted at the start of the match).[11] Discounting the battery and protective bumpers, the robot cannot exceed a weight of 120 pounds.[11]

Events

Regionals

The following regional events were held in 2012:[2]

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6

Districts

The two districts of 2012 are Michigan and Mid-Atlantic Robotics (MAR):[2]

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 7 (Championships)

World Championships

The World Championships for Rebound Rumble were held April 26–28[2] at the Edward Jones Dome in St Louis, Missouri.[3]

Final Round at Einstein Field

Source:[14]

  Semifinals Final
                             
 United States 2194 - 118 - 548 34 56 N/P 0W  
 United States 16 - 25 - 180 71 104 N/P 2W  
     United States 16 - 25 - 180 73 89 N/P 2W
   United States 233 - 987 - 207 65 45 N/P 0W
 Canada 1114 - 4334 - 2056 54 61 N/P 0W
 United States 233 - 987 - 207 83 83 N/P 2W  

References

  1. ↑ "Biggest FIRST(R) Championship Ever Features NBA Hall of Famer, Reigning World Series Champion, Pop Superstar, Celebrity Chef, Inventors, and Government Officials". FIRST. April 29, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "What Events And Teams Are In My Area?". FIRST. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  3. 1 2 "St. Louis to host FIRST Robotics Competition". St. Louis Business Journal. 7 October 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "2012 FIRST Championship Celebrates Science, Technology and Robots". FIRST. April 28, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ "2012 FRC Championship Awards List". FIRST. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ Kramer, Beth (19 January 2012). "Warren High robot squad readies for rumble". Lake County News-Sun. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
  7. 1 2 FIRST (7 January 2012). ""Rebound Rumble(SM)" Robotics Game Unveiled by Dean Kamen and Host of Celebrities to 60,000 High-School Students at 2012 FIRST (R) Robotics Competition Kickoff". Business Wire. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  8. 1 2 Davies, Chris. "Rebound Rumble pushes robotics development with will.i.am and Bill Clinton". SlashGear. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
  9. 1 2 Schad, Lauren (7 January 2012). "Columbia FIRST Robotics Competition team off and running". Columbia Missourian. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  10. ↑ "Chap 18 - Game Animation.mov". FIRST. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Game". FIRST. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  12. ↑ Pittari, Jeremy (7 January 2012). "Rebound Rumble is robotics game this year". Picayune Item. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  13. ↑ Abernathy, April (7 January 2012). "Students kick off robotics season". The Herald Bulletin. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  14. ↑ "FIRST Championship Match Results". FIRST. Retrieved April 29, 2012.

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